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PLAN 9 FROM BELL LABS

Initially
developed
by
the
people
who
devised
Unix
at
Bell
Labs,
Plan
9
took
OS
development
back
into
the
realm
of
research.
Plan
9
development
continues
to
challenge
the
concept
of
the
operating
system,
reworking
the
whole
idea
using
modern
concepts
and
technology.

Plan
9
is
not
Unix.
If
you
think
of
it
as
Unix,
you
may
become
frustrated
when
something
doesn't
exist
or
when
it
works
differently
than
you
expected.
If
you
think
of
it
as
Plan
9,
however,
you'll
find
that
most
of
it
works
very
smoothly,
and
that
there
are
some
truly
neat
ideas
that
make
things
much
cleaner
than
you
have
seen
before.